Quotes Thomas Paine

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superf...

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Mo...

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Chris...

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldier...

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks t...

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, a...

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man....

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it as...

Character is much easier kept than recovered....

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I kn...

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fi...

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil;...

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that i...

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even hi...

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even h...

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion...

Human nature is not of itself vicious....

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religio...

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather st...

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child...

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately....

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament r...

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance....

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry....

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally ...